On 05/04/2016 11:32 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Traditionally sed has used basic RE syntax not the extended
syntax that includes "+". If the OP uses a sed such as
exists on my systems, you can get extended RE syntax with
the "-r" option.
sed -r 's/[0-9]+//'
Samuel, does your sed support extended REs by default? If so,
what system has that version?
I'm on Fedora 23 and yes, it supports it by default. Although the +
does need to be escaped like with grep. I sent an earlier reply in this
thread, but it only went to the sender, not the list...
sed 's/[0-9]\+//'